"In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except ‘Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it’? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test, beggars fail, and for this they are despised… [A beggar] has not, more than most modern people, sold his honour; he has simply made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich."
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
(Source: youngfolksociety)
